New WordPress Freelance Project: JDMNagoyaAutoParts
I have been working on a lot of WordPress freelance projects lately, that’s I why I have been lazy posting. One of the most successful one is JDMNagoyaAutoParts, a showcase website for Japanese cars in Canada. I say it was a success because the project consisted on a lot of out-of-the-box theme development techniques and a lot of features that turn this site into a really flexible, scalable, time-saving CMS.
How to Limit Content in WordPress
Have you seen those cool magazine style WordPress themes around this days? They are just cool. You might have noticed that they sometimes show a few words of the post, this is for sure not the default WordPress excerpt showing that because the default excerpt length is set to 55 words and manually excerpting every post would be a great time consumer. So, what are this guys putting together to get that cool effect on their sites by controlling the length of the content?
Easy PHP II: Variables
In the previous introductory PHP tutorial we talked about what PHP looks like and in what kind of environment it runs. To sum up, we said that we write PHP code between tags that look like this: “<?php … ?>” and we end every command line must and in semicolon (;). We use “echo” or “print” in order for PHP to show things to us.
Fedora Logo Design Process
I came across in a blog post of 2005 the Fedora logo design process. I do share the same opinion as the writer of that post when he says:
It’s fascinating to see the process and justification behind a logo idea like this.
Wonderful Advice from Steve Jobs
I came across this wonderful video where Steve Jobs is delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In this talk he gives out three pieces stunningly simple yet great advice by telling three stories from his life and this stories are about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & [...]
WP has a roof called WordPress Foundation
WordPress project has lately build a roof to protect the project from the “bad weather”. But strangely enough they called it WordPress Foundation. Jokes apart, this is great news for the Open Source movement, especially for the WordPress community guys like me.
WordPress 2.9 is here (2.9.1 too)
WordPress 2.9 provides the smoothest ride yet because of a number of improvements under the hood and more subtle improvements you’ll begin to appreciate once you’ve been around the block a few times. WordPress 2.9 came about packed with a lot of new features from which the WordPress Dev team has pointed out the following:
Do You Know How Matt Mullenweg Works?
Today I read a great article of Matt explaining the way he works over at Automattic published at Inc.Com: It is into two versions, Matt’s version and Inc’s one. Inc seems to write your words in first person their way. That is why Matt decided to rewrite it for his blog readers. I like more [...]
WordPress 2.8 Has Been Released
Yes, I know I’m late, but I decided to write this post just for the sake of chronology. Not only has WP 2.8 been released with a lot of new great improvements, but it has been downloaded more than 850.000 times already. That’s amazing. As you now know, you can upgrade automatically your WP blog/site [...]
The New Default WordPress Theme Vision
Lately I have been part of a debate about removing the default WordPress theme, “Kubrick”, over at WeblogTools Collection, where Jeff Chandler introduced a topic about a ticket in Trac outlining his proposal for a new theme to be based on the current WordPress code-base. Actually, the track author clarified in a comment that he did not [...]
